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As seen in: The Information, News.com.au, Flipboard, Australian Financial Review, The Herald Sun, The Australian, The Courier-Mail, Perth Now, The Mercury (Tasmania), Health Impact News, SGT Report
Banking reporter @theinformation in San Francisco ☏/Telegram/WhatsApp/Signal +1 347 864 0601 Former national corro @FinancialReview and roustabout @australian
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Kalshi Asks Some Customers For Employer Information

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By Michael Roddan 
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Source: The Information Prediction markets platform Kalshi is asking customers in some wagers to provide the name of their employer, industry and job function before making bets, to help the company crack down on potential insider trading. “For markets with heightened insider or manipulation risk, we now collect employment information before traders can participate,” the company said in a blog post.
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Google Employee Charged For Alleged Polymarket Bets

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By Michael Roddan 
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Source: The Information Federal prosecutors charged a Google employee with using confidential information to win $1.2 million betting on Polymarket, according to a Federal Court complaint unsealed on Wednesday. Michele Spagnuolo, a staff software engineer at Google, allegedly placed bets on the prediction market for wagers tied to top Google searches.
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Polymarket Wants Traders to ID Themselves as It Faces Sanctions, Legal Risks

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By Michael Roddan 
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In Russia, making bets on Polymarket isn’t permitted by the popular online prediction market’s rules. But that hasn’t stopped Ruslan Kashaev, a software developer who lives in the small Russian city of Ufa, a 15-hour drive from Moscow, from turning the site into a lucrative source of income. Using automated trading bots hosted on the Telegram encrypted messaging service, Kashaev has convinced thousands of Russian-speaking traders to bet on Polymarket.
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